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Article: Health: Why stress is fat's; new best friend; Feeling a bit of a chubby chops? Maybe you should relax more. Scientists have discovered that ongoing low-level stress can actually make us put on weight...(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2003
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Byline: Text by Michele Kirsch.
W hy is that when your best friend breaks up with a man she sheds ten pounds in two weeks because she is too miserable to eat, but when you go through anything stressful, you put on weight? It could be that you are a stress eater, which means when the going gets tough, you get going to the newsagent, popping those Maltesers as if they were chocolate-coated Valium.
A new theory from America holds that this isn't just any old stress. This is `toxic stress' and it leads to `toxic fat'. Dr Pamela Peeke, assistant clinical ...